I entered the worship service, unaware of what to expect. I was not familiar with this church, it was a non-denominational church, but the pastor had his roots in the AME Zion church and branched out to start his own church. I entered the sanctuary prepared to participate in Sunday School. I found a seat and prepared to engage in a meaningful discussion. After sitting for several minutes, I asked one of the gentlemen standing in front of the church if they had started yet and where the lesson was coming from. He looked at his watch and made it clear that he didn't know if we had time for Sunday School. A perplexed look formed on my face and I couldn't help but express my confusion as I looked at the clock and we had 45 minutes until the worship service began. Then he grumbled a little and said okay, okay, now we can start. He then presented to the group a concern he had about the invocation. He started by giving an analogy that if he goes to your house, he expects to find you. There is no need to invite you to your home. I slowly raised my hand. He called me reluctantly. I expressed to him the importance of centering and humbling ourselves before God. We must remember that God is in the audience and we must give Him due recognition by acknowledging Him and expressing our unworthiness to be in His divine presence. From his initial questions, I deduced that he came from a worship tradition that did not embrace traditional invocation, but perhaps replaced "invocation with a casual greeting from the pastor...in a false attempt to create "community" and make worshipers feel at ease.” Worship is not intended as a “feel good” experience…… middle of paper……nge. The pastor was aware that God was in the audience. He wasn't there to entertain, he was there to teach and help transform. As I analyzed the presentation and words of his sermon, I thought about how successful his sermon would be if he had a television ministry. I reflected on Postman and his analytical and critical approach to understanding television ministry. This sermon was clearly not intended to entertain the masses, it was not intended to perpetuate a false sense of contempt for our current existence; a culture plagued by false idols of greed and excess. God is no longer the center or catalyst of experience, but man is. All done during the hour of worship; including listening to the Word of God, is an act of worship. This worship should kill us because we realize our unworthiness to be in the presence of God.